Dies to Removal

Nuwen

Talking to people takes practice, so do it often and pay attention to the topics that make your audience perk up / sit straighter. Body cues will tell you immediately if someone is uncomfortable, willing to talk/listen, bored, etc. If you're not interesting, listen to other people instead of speakin...

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I AM SO READY FOR THIS BRIEF KITTEN INTERLUDE

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all my love 2u Boota

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Okay okay okay The first bit is just a stoner joke, because Ents are 'friends of the trees.' Would recommend over pills for pain relief BTW. Opiates mess with your poops. The second piece says I'm going to build a game and it's gonna be hella frosty, invest now! Fate is so sharp he cuts, but he does...

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Turning on the feel good vibes and sending them your way, Tube. Building out a new-old workstation today. Using CentOS (it's an RHEL clone) and realized their slogan is The Community [b:mk4yx2qr]ENT[/b:mk4yx2qr]erprise OS. Proceeded to giggle for ages. Going to make headway on the front page before ...

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Which MMO, Fate? Something you can smash in, I presume. A friend couple of ours convinced us to play FF XIV for a couple weeks, instead of board game night. The game is gorgeous, but desperately needs quality of life improvements. The grindy gear token system at endgame is pretty standard, but is s...

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There's nothing wrong about spending time with other women, even in a monogamous relationship if everyone's honest about their expectations IMO. If you think your GF is worth seeing through hard times, I'd talk to her about experimenting. Even if sexy times aren't an option, you might be able to tal...

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The judge was sitting one table over, and we were playing in a new store... so it was difficult to gauge the extremity of the situation.

Plus, does appealing to authority sound like a Fate thing to do? He'd either let the words roll off or throw a blow back.

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Says the dude who plays a 1, 2, 3, MASTER-CURVE deck?

What's with the assholes tonight.

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I can definitely help you out. :D Static content seems fine for a start, but I think we should build/integrate a minimalist CMS (hooks phpbb_posts). If we give the clan tools to self-publish, it'll go far. I don't want to limit content generation to cyclic updates! Fate and I are heading out to Stan...

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Oh, also the prime item to consider in a streaming laptop is a dedicated GPU. Most laptops integrate GPU functions into the motherboard, but integrated cards share resources. You want your GPU to be the only item on its power rail, have discrete RAM, and driver support for your GPU capture / broadca...

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I do web & UI/UX design. Who should I be bothering about the notice up there^?

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Not surprised at all that Red smokes Luckies. Every time I smell their blend it conjures up the image of a life-torn badass.

I quit the nicotine but still enjoy occasional clove cigarillos and THC, especially over coffee.

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First two MODO opponents today are playing demented derivatives of the R/B aggro list that won a GP (our baby!). The first guy copied his pretty much card for card, but jammed Grey Merchant into the sideboard (which gave our own Pyro list some issues, because the line we committed to didn't account ...

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Turned $2 into Chandra!

Too bad our PyroRakis deck is waaaay too inconsistent for higher EV / higher pay threshold events, like dailies.

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INTP here too. I fit most into the creative-wanderer profile, lover of systems and languages.

Fate is the deus ex machina in this story.

Nuwen

Fate IS smash. I tediously sketched out a Lulu (League of Legends) pumpkin in the background, trying to shave each area to the perfect shade... Fate grabbed a butcher knife and stabbed his pumpkin into the Gruul logo in 5 minutes, then kicked back to watch my ass toil http://i.imgur.com/ErnyJAF.jpg

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Couldn't find my charcoal-sharpening knife, so this sketch turned out to be quick & rough (another redthirst-approved phrase) Thanks for the fun study. I'm just an amateur, so none of the light or happy came through but she was a joy to sketch. :D https://scontent-a-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3...

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That photo is beautiful. I love the slighty-off-symmetrical line that runs from wolf hat seam straight through her perfect teeth. I might draw her; that picture is what every artist craves for a subject.

Too weird?

Nuwen

In my experience, Thoughtseize is really only good against midrange (where each of their individual cards out values yours significantly). I wouldn't play it against control, because THEIR plan is to 1-1 you. Unless you by chance catch a Verdict or Sphinx's, the Thoughtseize just contributes to cont...

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Great article & props on the feature, BTW. We already knew Zem is a fire god. I really appreciate the author's pause to say: Basically, red decks reward playing the deck and playing the opponent very well. Combo decks reward playing the actual deck optimally, and control leans more on playing op...

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Damn hizzy.

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I plan on splashing a second color into Zem's YP$ build for no good reason other than funsies! The net change is +/-7 or 8 cards (Dreadbore, Exava) and different sideboard angles, like Rakdos' Return for a fireball and dark betrayal as h8 in exchange for sometimes-dubious mana and no mutavaults. Exp...

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<3 I can't wait for Alex to make some nerds CRY. The legal card list isn't prepared to deal with Exava, any 1 drop into Jester hand, and pretty much all of the higher-class tech we fold to is banned. I forsee a lot of red mirrors getting OWNED by postboard suite of 4 Stike / 4 Jet / 4 Doom blade / 4...

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I'm not saying festering newt is a bad card. The fact that it's GOOD against us already says it's got game - just not in our shell, because we're not trying to grind marginal advantages in any matchup. We're trying to kill them before our weaker-budgeted cards fold. Playing even WEAKER kill-you card...

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Seriously: Rix Maadi guildmage is a better source of the effect you're praising, and playing guildmage ALSO lets you play cards with better stats than newt. Consider the options; what if you could threaten y-for-mana on every swing, not just a nuanced 2-1 on your 1 drop? And like I said, because you...

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Going into 2nd ever Standard daily. Our baddie budgetdos now has Blood Crypts, bringing our total buy-in up to $19/deck $12/event entry. We figured the mana consistency would be worth the initial investment, because our deck just loses when it can't cast its spells on curve.

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Use science to teach.

"Firedrinker Satyr is like a 2 man beer bong - if you suck harder, sure, you're going to get trashed but THE OTHER guy is taking a facefuck too!"

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I wouldn't play newt in a deck that plans to beat someone down. TKA and skills are already higher class don't-block-me-bro. The majority of your dudes should be presenting the most damage/cmc possible. Newt seems like a stabilization tool and not a beat stick. Play the 2/1 hero (read his herioc - sk...

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The guy who DID beat me needed 2 sideboard games, both featuring triple DD draws into 2x Dark Betrayal + Merchant x2 to do it. And even in game 3, I had 3 discrete draw steps to hit any of act of treason, lightning strike, magma jet to win. Not bad out odds on his crazy powerful opener, good curve, ...

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I'm not above a 30 minute power nap between matches.

This is why I don't get the stereotype 'control = r smrt.' No intelligent person wants to exhaust himself halfway through a tournament when a different approach lets you recoup, relax, refocus instead.

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One of our LGS friends will likely be able to ID into the top 8 @ GP Louisville playing G/R devo, which is pretty exciting. The team pledged to buy a rape travel van if one of them takes the cake at this event.

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Shout out to the clan for encouraging us to fix our own damn car instead of being fucked by an auto chain. Spent $17 at an auto parts store, 20 minutes on youtube, and now she's purring like a happycat.

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-erunt is a third-person plural perfect active indicative conjugation, so succenderunt means "they have burnt [actively - so they were not burnt by external force]." My dictionary says the verb can take a transitive object to imply real burning; without any object (intransitive) it comes o...

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We realized today that I'm playing a deck comprised of strong, powerful black women.

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Man, I can't believe you're letting a scrub like me be called a peer. Everything I know about Magic is sourced to this forum. If I'm a shiny member, it's only because the content here has never led me astray. I'm also amazed at Fate's dogged quest to perfect the archetype of his soul. You guys have ...

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Would you say you're cocked on the subject?

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I'd love to see how many problems true education reform and legalization would change. . . Working on it, one mind at a time. The systemic stuff won't change first, it has to be individuals enlightening other individuals. You're not crazy - they just want you to think you are. They want you to beli...

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I've seen a case full of no-serial guns. You can buy them for about a month of NYC rent. These guns are acquired in a couple of ways: 1. Stealing - there aren't many states that specify how you store your guns, because states who favor guns do not favor excessive [difficult-to-enforce] regulations. ...

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